ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,337, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for sidelink communication in unlicensed band" was invented by Jun Hyeong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Go San Noh (Daejeon, South Korea), Il Gyu Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Man Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Nak Woon Sung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Su Song (Daejeon, South Korea), Nam Suk Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Hee Sang Chung (Daejeon, South Korea) and Min Suk Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of a first terminal may include: identifying first RB set(s) to be...